Repudiation: The Republican Party was obviously the big winner on Tuesday. But the midterm elections also produced some notable losers, chief among them the president and his big-government policies.
This generational GOP tide means that the party now controls both the House and Senate for the first time in eight years and its domination is at historic proportions. Not since Harry Truman was in the Oval Office have Republicans held such a large majority in the House, and they're now stronger in state government than they have been at any time since the 1920s.
Such big wins don't come without big losers. Tuesday's results left some prominent busts.
• ObamaCare: The November IBD/TIPP poll found that 63% of likely voters said ObamaCare was of "high importance" to their vote. Apparently, they meant it. Every single newly elected Republican senator has pledged to repeal the law. Republicans ran a heavy ad campaign attacking it, and voters rewarded the GOP with a Senate majority and more House seats.
Likely future Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has pledged to start dismantling ObamaCare as soon as the next Congress reconvenes. We won't be happy until the whole thing is in the junk pile.
• Tom Steyer/Green Movement: Billionaire Steyer spent $74 million on a variety of races around the country, trying to sell voters on the idea of imminent doom from global warming from CO2 in the atmosphere. His political action committee, NextGen Climate, ran dozens of global warming commercials on the Web, more than 7,000 in key states.
But Steyer's money had less influence on election-night outcomes than CO2 has on global temperatures. By one estimate, three-quarters of the money he spent went to losing candidates. Meanwhile, two candidates Steyer desperately tried to beat, Cory Gardner in Colorado and Joni Ernst in Iowa, easily won Senate seats.
• Anti-Koch Brothers Fanaticism: Billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch became the issue for desperate Democrats last summer as polls soured. Majority Leader Harry Reid bashed them hundreds of times in speeches on and off the Senate floor for their largesse to conservative and libertarian causes.
Meanwhile, the Center for American Progress, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a handful of ultraliberal super-PACs and others piled on with relentless, unhinged, irrational attacks. In the end, the inane attacks on the Kochs had no impact.Read the other 6 BIG LOSERS HERE.
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